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The 2008 Pigasus Awards

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Throbert McGee4/03/2009 4:32:07 pm PDT

re: #383 jcm

In Russian the paranoia is built into the language.

He left to go to the library.

The implication being, I have no knowledge of where he is, only what he intended to, or told us when he left here.

What’s wrong with simply On poshel v biblioteku (“He went to the library”)?

I mean, you could throw in some sort of clause with chtoby (“in order to…”), but it’s not totally necessary.